...-..-..4 ...-. .. - ,Page 6 v The Guardian Thursday, Sept. 23, 1954 N. B. Team Wins Opener ,For Softball - '1' h a silver Falls Aces. New Bi-unsu lck intermediate softball champions defeated t h e R.C.A.F. Gh'ship Sporls Forum BOXERS AND FIGHTER! -Sir.-The champloship bout be- tween Marciano and Charles in history now. and Marciano is still champion. It was a fast. hard fight. Charles got in three body blows before Marciano got started. but they were only "feelers". not lethal. The "Rock" soon got go- ing and carried the fight to Charles for the next seven rounds -never let him "set." It was the opinion of the ex- perts that Marciano was a poor boxer, but a great fighter. He must have improved a lot in box- ing and ring science since his other bout with Charles. He made them. Norma". RC-AF. left field-,ihe challenger miss many times. er, led all bat.ters with 4 hits, in-.1: takes the ”fighter" longer to cludlniz a double. in 5 tries. Cot- get down to the fine arts of the Royals at the summerside airport trell hit 3 for 6..Prlce. Silver Falls "science". diamond ycstcrdny -the score of 13-8. It was the in a three-game series for NB.-P.E.l. championship. The came was played in 5 very higli wind which made good ball .handlinr: very difficult. The Royals suthit the visitors by V-W61"? bing- les to six but Andrews. who had difficulty getting into the strike "zone because of the high wind. stalked nine. and his mates (chip- first the pcd in with n hnl.'-dozen errors luicilll. 2b: Langelic, 3b; Warner, p contribute their share to the de- French, lb: McHugh. lf; Farnham. feat. Andy struck out four. Warner. toeing the slab for the New Brunsviick champions. also whirled four. and gave free tickets to first. The Silver Falls aggregation had! hilly two errors chalked up against .bases - Beaudry. Cullen. afternoon by short stop. led his team with two Marciano compares well with Ihils in four trips. "Dempsey and Jim Jeffries. The 1 Ring (Nat Fleischer Oct. edition) LlNESCOTtE:- ,likens ithe "Rock" to Jeff in his , ,youihful days. It took Tommy 'Sllvcr Falls 059 oio 502-13 6 2 Ryan. the great middle welizht iggcdg p on; 131 300- 3 12 3 three months to get Jeff to use a i ,good straight left. The straight L'NEL'Ps;.. 'left is the "natural" defence ;ngainst a rusher and haymaker Sm,” Fans gg prick 53: M. swings. Occasionally the intended lMaugc"n' M. Fummnp C. B. Maugg receiver moves his head slightly ..Io the left. and with the same "motion puts a right cross counter H, .on his opponent's jaw. which is ' C , I it k b R'c'A',' Rmlla ” Normnm In herlttEm1ivo:i'tlltheiprixlelfffe. now: y ,Allnrd, 2b: Kimber. c: Jones, rf: There was "me. ” any. boxing up 'our'AndreW5' pl 'mCks9"' ab: Pntmam skill shown at the greatest up- 553 Conreno cf; G'b5m" lb' set in the boxing world, viz, the Umpires: Plate - McAlllster; Dempswgwillard match at T01. :1-do. Dempsc-y's simple secret for- Peter clcgg, Bud's Echo Double Winners Yesterday) Peter Clegg and Bud's Echo were the double dash winners at the reopening of ilie Montague race track yesterday afternoon. The Clog; Horsc. sired by the great Abner T. Clcgg. is owned by G. H. Brookins and was driven by Semple in both dashes which end- ed in commanding leads. Bud's Echo, owned by Ralph MacFadycn. and driven by Smith. stayed out in front in both dashes although hard pressed by Frisco the Great and Ginger Worthy. In the third dash of the day's meet. Captain Morgnii, owned and driven by W. M. Kennedy. came under the wire first, but was set back one posit:on for interference at the first turn. and the dash was awarded 'to Colonel Budlong. dri- vcn by A. Lowrcv, who came in second place. However. in the second dash thc Morgan horse led all the way to make an outstand- ing finim. Honors ii ere divided between iAmerlca's Ace and Belle Budlong in the first classified pace. with Mr. Cudmnre driving the Act to win the first dash and R. Mac- Donald loriing the Budlong horse home in the second. Although the afternoon proved excellent weather, the crowd was disappointing. owing. perhaps, to ohe unfavorable outlook in the morning. Those. however. who at tended were t.i'r-nicd to it very fine rformance of horse racing un- er the capablc direction of Frank Acorn, starter. The daily double (winners of mtila was to batter Willard amid- ships to make him lower his guard. and then play hard and first on his jaw. The ferocity of ithe first round slowed Dempsey. ianci Willard lrept him off with his long effective left in the sec- ond. In the 3rd Dempsey was Second and mi.-d dunes) paid on rested and finished off Jess. 33,95. A Boston promoter had told sUMMARy this writer some time previously Classified Pace Penny Royal (Drake) Seconds Count (Llewellyn) Judy Budlong (Fitzpatrick) Time: 2.20: 2:19 1-5. Classified Pace Second and Sixth Dashes Peter Clegg (Semple) Gahagan (Shaw) Marion )3: (Kelly) . . Prince Budlong (Cudmore) Essa (smith) . Money Royal (Collins) Time: 2.13 4-5: 2.14 3-5. Classified Pace Third and Seventh Dashes Colonel Budlong (Lowery) Captain Morgan (Kennedy) Barbara Ann Queen (Smith) Bessie Budlong (Collins) Silk Hal (Llewellyn) . .. Miss Commando (Fitzpatrick) Billy Budlong (MacDonald) -Icav-.p:-nsaua aulthwn-a Time: 2.21; 2.19. Golfing Season concluded By Summersi An enjo,xable'afternoon no the lairivays. followed by a bean sup- per and an evening dance brought me active golfing season to a close restcrday at the Summerside Golf end Country Club. A group of two doll foursomes made up the after- noon's play and the various prizes were presented at the supper hour by the club president, Mr. H. E. . Gnudet. The championship clip was rio- Iizted by Miss Marion T-lowntt. the runner up prfzn by Mi” sally Easier and the .-martin for sealed holes in the junior competitions by Mr. H. E. Gaudct. In the first junior competition ntaccd at the Summcrslde club ,VPsl.0lida,V aficrnonn Bill Daley shot' 103. for 13 holes to win the junior championship of the club. Miss Betty Mallett shot a 121 to capture the runner up low net prize. other prize winncrs for sealed holes were Mike Iirnrvicl and Jimmy Hickey. Low gross scores turricd in worthy of mention besides Bill Daley-'s 103 were Kendall Godkin. 1f)7:'Helcn Horne. 110. and Ne Henthorne Ila. Champions and runners-up: nliaclles Club championship, Blanche Hogs; runner up. Nettie MacLeod. lat dlv.. Lillian Cud- more: runner tip. Jean Church. Ind dlv.. Julie Melkle: runner up, Yfvnnne Ahern. (Menu Club championship. Norman MacLeod; runner up. Der- wln Huestls; 1st dlv.. Dr. Vince Grant: runner up. Maynard Schur- man. ind div.. Heath Warren; will Consider h lioolbaii Team All who are hitereatad in the formation of a center: football team In this city for Maritime compet- ition are asked to attend a meetlna in be held this evening in Prince of Wales College. This meeting is important because an entry must be filed before Sunday. September -----:.....';..-:.:v MATINEE RACES 7 AT MILLVALI t Mlllvaie Driving Club will hold a Matinee Race at Mlllvale race track Saturday. Sept. 25th. Class- es for all horses. . mm on Mrs. George Morrison. c pton Highland Cancer of the tiles! lurch: at races. de Club -runner up. Jim Harris. winner, Peter Pope; ,George Oldscamp. Here are results of the two ban foursome matches: I, Helen smith and Jeff Godden iwith ll 53. In approaching and (putting competitions: Harold Rodd land Nell MacLeod (tied). lrd div. runner up, .o Exhibition Game Al local Airporl Douglas Bros. dz Jones defeated Montague 9-7 in an exhibition softball game played at the Air. port diamond last evening. Glen Newsome was the winning pitch- er snd George Nicholson the los- er. Richard Carr and Merle Long- raphle hit. homr-rs for the win- ners nnd Campbell the losers. E r-.).. .c-, - had one for L0l'lS "COREY" 150 Lbs. Clftown ROY "TIGER" STEELE TM Lb!-. ClI'bI1w1I I'0l'N(i "TIGER" STEELE 181 Lbs” clrnm. Illllild 31.15; All rtnderth Time: 2.19: 2:20. ,, , cllssmed Tm; Corbctt, l-it7., Jeff at al. The Ring Fourth "Id Huh"! Duh" mcntlont the match betwecn Jef- BLld's Echo (E. Smith) l i''''" "fl 3”” '”.'"5””” 5"” prism the Gm” (Kennedy) 2 3,Steve ODonnell in succession. Mmdale mm, , H 3 lstew, who had a boxing school -”mm;e A ,ReN,E,s) 4 at the corner of Concord and Muriel E ,Ke”y) 5 twnshington streets in Boston told Ginger worthy (Macnonald 6 ziyour humble scribe about it. Steve Tartan (C. Smith, H 7 was an Australian with a delight- slmm, B .Bemn,.d) 8 drful Australian inflection -- and McClllSKEY vs, TWO CROWD PLEASING FICRTEBB WITH VEIIY I ngcolns MPIIBSIVI SEMI-FINAL - SIX a aanmn MATCH - ma aou-r -mu pm; An 51-" rsrarrno snow. in V5. an at nrnosma: to wt-runes -rwo oaazar ACTION non-r-nae i SLAM BANG FOUR ROUNDEB NJOFOUR 39'.-WITOIIRTAIN-BAIIIB. - i General Adlnlulon am; ' cards will be admitted for Goa Advance late at Home and had Lang". that he thought Willard so good that he could beat any six heavy- 7,blow barrage that Dempsey land- gjed on Tunncy in the "long count" zlfight made Tunney look like a novice. Tunney was down for 14 seconds. Dempsey didn't go to a "neutral" corner. One" might sup- lipose that any corner would be 4;"neuiral" in that case. However 3 at least four seconds were lost to 2 Dempsey. Whether or not that 5 lost him the fight is one of the mimponderables. It can't be weigh- ed. Too many hypothetical pro- positions ln it. The Ring's comparison of Mar-' 2 ciano to Jeffrlr-5 implies that it 1'liad great faith in the ability of the "Rock". which has been amply 51vindfcated by the outcome last 4 Friday night. Rocky has proved 7 that he deserves a niche in the 6 hall of boxing fame. He will bci 'rrited in the class with Dempsey. First and Fifth llashea . America: Ace (cudmorei 1 3 -weight contenders then in sight- Bene Budlong (MacDonald) 2 lim the some ring. in succession. Verriita Pearl (Lowery) 3 4 Dem”-”3' 7-'"PmV9d m b0x”'3 Bob Cleg, (Smnh) g 4 mailer his bouts with Cnrpentier In comouwoies) 5 3,and other contenders. The six- 6 '1 8 igrcat enthusiasm. Armstrong was 'A Boston product too. Boston was who Mecca of devotees of the manly art in the time of the great John L. Sullivan-and much later. When Jeff came from California, Tommy Ryan and the New York italcnl. thought lrlghlly) that they had is future champion. The New iYork crowd guaranteed 32500 if jJe-ff failed to, beat both in the 'one ring. Armstrong went on with Jeff ,first and made Jeff look like an ;nmateur. Tommy Ryan came to Steve and said: "Look here O'Donnell I've got It coming champion here and I don't want to have him killed." So Steve and Armstrong got a pittance for expenses. The forfeit was never implemented. Biff Sandy Ferguson of Moncton N. E., and Boston. knocked that same Bob Armstrong clearly out 0' U1! rlnlt shortly after that in a Boston bout. In a bout there is always a chance of a lucky freak punch. Prince Edward Island fight fans are due for thrills next Monday nlizht. Sept. 27th at the Forum ghen middle welllht McClosl(ey of harlottelown and Dartmouth and McDonough of Boston. clash in . boxing bout. the result of which will add considerably to the preg. ige of the wlnndr. The MONDAY. sen. 27--3:30 p.m.' TOP RANKING MTDDLEWEIGHTS TEN ROUNDS JOHNNY ncoonoucli 155 1450-. loatol. Mau. GASTON ROY To Meet 'tTiger” V? Pictured above is 149 lb. Gaston Roy who will meet R.oy "Tiger" Steele of Charlottetown in a six- round semi-final return match at the forum next Monday night. The Quebec boxer won their first fight by a close decision over the colorful Charlottetown boxer. loe '0-'Brien Has Leg Injured Joe O'Brien, well known Jockey in the United States and formerly from Alberton, P. E. island. was treated for a leg injury in a Delaware, Hospital. Ohio, on Tuesday after he became involved in a spcctacular accident in which five drivers were unseatcd. The accident marred the 58.035 Breed- ers' Filly Stakes for l.hree-year- old tnottcrsi at the Delaware Fair. boy has quite a formidable re- cord. His latest bouts were near- ly all wins-some by the K. 0. route. McCloske,v's record must not he played down. lie has had over 30 lights-most of them wins-and some K.0.'s. He is mentioned in Ring Magazine. it may be close. but it is hard to predict the out- come. The law of averages is not applicable in those boxing bouts -anything can happen. The Gaston Roy--Tiger Steele sci-to will he a sizzling go, from the first bell. Steele is n rusher. in the first game of the 1954 edit- Indians and the New York Giants. warriors, while The American League champion Cleveland Indians equalled a 21- year-old record for total victories Wednesday by beating Chicago 3-1 for their lloth rlumph. In the National League. Karl Spooner of Brooklyn. who spent the season with Fort Worth. struck out 15 men in his first major The stage is being set in New York and Cleveland for the greatest sports event in the world of base- ball and perhaps even in the realm of sport itself-the World Series- Ball fans from all parts of the continent will fill to the rafters, the seats of the largest stadiums in both leagues-those of Municip- al Stadium in the American and the Polo Grounds in the National. All over the world enthusiasts of the game will see on TV. and hear on radio the plays which will mean world supremacy for one team and only league dominance for the other. Yes, great will be the inter- est when Mr. Ump yells, ”Play Ball". at the "Homo of the Giants" ion of the world Series. being play- ed this year. for the first time in history. between the Cleveland ,On Tuesday, 250,000 Clevelanders turned out to whistle. cheer and throw bushels of confetti on "their" Indians who had won their third American League pennant by de- featlng the Detroit Tigers 3-2 last Saturday. The Al Lopez guided registering their l07ili win of the season, had brought to an end the co-called Equal 27-Year-Old Record With 110th Triumph league appearance, defeating the New York Giants 3-0. This set an all-time record for a first time performance. The old mark was 13 by Cliff Melton of the Clarita. Spoone allowed the new Na- tional League champs only three hits. all singles. He walked three. Al Dark beat out an infield roller in the first inning. Willie Mays dumped a. single over the infield in the third and loser Johnny An- tonelll singled over first in the fifth. Left fielder Al smith drove in two of the mic Cleveland runs and Don Mossl. usually reserved for relief duties, held the White sox scoreless until the, ninth. Bob- by Avila raised his league-leadinz batting average to .357 with two of the seven Cleveland hits off loser Jack Harshman. Tommy Byrna won his third game in four decisions since re- turning to the New York Yankees as he beat Washington 3-0 on five hits. The Yankees ,' '-" the who, while in a late season slump were able to hold off the oncoming Braves and Dodgers and win the National League pennant. will ent- er the 51st World Series with I smoother-working and healthier in- field than the Indlans. So all in all. this year's World series should be a thriller from start to finish. . - . The way things stand right now. there is a good possibility that the newly formed Atlantic Coast Sen- ior Hockey League will have six teams instead of the present five. Fans around Saint John seem quite interested in having a team participate in the league which is scheduled to start October 22 at Amherst and Fredericton .The Saint John forum management say that if the sporting public are willing to back it team, then the forum will go along with the scheme also. I I 0 Meanwhile in Forrest Clow. manager of the foriun has stated that he intends to have ice ready for practise on eith- er the lilth or 14th of October. Chaqottetown, ' Roy is quite an illusive b0XEl'. five year pennant-winning mon- Young (Tiger) Steele will enter- tain (Pcanuts) Arscnault of Sum- merside in ll four rounder. which will be packed full of, actllori. The Steele boys are nothing if inot energetic scrappers. In the four round curtain raiser some Span- ish orfortugucse blood is being introduced, in the person of E. Gova of Venezuela, against Bobby White of Charlottetown. South America has scnt some pretty good turn north---some of them were of championship calibre. By the way. that reminds us that the Latin and Negroid races are tak- lng the play away from the Anglo- Saxons. and the Irish and Scotch. Trhck and ficld intcrscholastic games will soon he in the lime- light. It h9n'il00VE.l tcachers to select their best athletes. "Phy- sical fitness" is a necessary part of education. it gocs hand-in-hand with mental development. "Mons sand in corpore snno" (a sound mind in a sound body) ought to be the wntchword. I am, Sir, ctt'.. .1. PICNDERGAST. Training a; follows: liuslico .. L .. Summerside Ill Lb!-. Quebec rahnura IKSENAULT 1” Lil-o Banunenldo OIIIlIlImHo lienslnglon .. i -on With the greatest pitching trio in baseball composed of Mike Garcia. Bob Lemon und Early Wynn, the Tribe's throwing staff to give the Giants batsmen a lot of trouble in the upcoming series. FALL iiiharlollelown Area Montague iformeliy.204 inylncll ' ' plural?!" . ya -- opoly of the New York Yankees are likely Plans for Charlottetownzs entry In the ACSHL are to be finalized at a meeting to which anyone is wel- comed in the Forum on Friday evening. Holding seats have been on sale all this week and anyone who wishes to pick up tickets for their last year's seats may do so llowever. the New York Giants at the forum today. Open Golf To urnamcnt Scheduled This Week-end The biggest attraction for men in this season's Maritime golf- the first annual P. E. Island Open Golf Tournament-will be held at Eastern Canada's finest golf course at Charlottetown this Sat- urday and Sunday. Prizes totalling 5450 will be awarded to amateur winners while over 5400 in pro- fcsslonal prize money will also be won. All the top professionals in the Maritimes and two pros from the States have. signified thr-Ir lnlen-i P. E. I. Rec-:-1'. mm men TRAINING COMMENCES NEXT WEEK !! T A Join Canada's fighting Annoured Corps ohm. Gunners". Clerks end Srorernen. I o e'e'eT Ye 0': u I seen 'oo'elo'fo'eeeoO tions of playing. They include Kas Gabowskle, Archie Skinner, Don Sinclair and Allan Olglvle. present M.P.G.A. champion. Many of the Maritlme's top amateurs will also be on hand. such as Willlngdon Cup players Art MacKenzle. Roy Morrison. Bill Beer: M. J. Dowling, Bob Gray. and such top ranking Nova Scotia players as Peter Dolg. Rex Joudrey and Roland Duchemln. Draws for intillvdual play times season's fifth triple play in the sixth inning. The Milwaukee Braves whipped Cincinnati 3-), wrapping it up In the ninth on an unassisted double play by catcher Del Crandall. With runnera 911 first and sec- ond and one out. pinch hitter Bob Borkowskl struck out on a wild pitch. Gus Bell tried to move from second to third and Crandall fired to third baseman Eddie Mathews. But Borkowskl broke from the plate and ran to first. Mathews threw across the infield. hitting Borkowskl in the back. After a l5-minute conference the umpires decided Borkowskl was out automatically when he struck out. And they called Bell out at the plate because .'Borkow- akl illegally drew the throw to first. This st. Louis Cardinals defeated Chicago 6-3 with Brooks Lawrence (Continued on page 15) Eagles Defeat- Braves . 9-T . The Bouthport Eagles defeated r t I the Charlottetown Braves 11-9 in a softball game played 3; mm Knights of Columbus diamond last evening. Billy MacFarlane was the winning pitcher and Billy wright the loser. Billy Hughes mashed two homers for the Eagles while Jimmy Fardy had one for the 195. ers. Baseball ' Results ' By THE CANADIAN Pluiss American League Washington 000 000 000-0 .1 5 New York 100 000 20x-3 ll 1 McDermott. 'Pascual (8) and FitzGerald; Byrne and Berra. 1, (Continued on page 15) B060, h FIJEL OILS Boat by Test DIN. 9911 1 1-4 sizes: Ho 12 MGDREJ 8- M will he made on Saturday. Now! 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